Since Fleetway Publications and Odhams Press had been merged into IPC Magazines by common owners International Publishing Company in 1969, management had launched several new juvenile titles, including Sally, Scorcher, Cor!

[7] As such the Dwarf was among the characters selected to appear in crossover title The Vigilant; The revived version was updated significantly, now confined to a wheelchair and bald.

The diminutive genius pilots an array of highly realistic robots as a means of disguise and operates from a suburban tower block called Gallows Court.

He often targeted items under the personal guard of Smarmy, leaving his rival humiliated - at one point he was able to chalk a taunting message on the Superintendent's shirt, and escape undetected.

As well as the robots, the Dwarf devised numerous other machines pull off his thefts - including a drilling tank called The Mole, a strength-boosting Giant Grip Glove, mechanical bat wings that allowed him to fly and Retro-Powered Shoes which featured springs.